Homily for Trinity Sunday 30 May 2010
Today I always think of as the most difficult Sunday to preach on in the Church’s Year because this is Trinity Sunday, and we have to turn our minds, as best we can, to reflecting on the nature of God – what is God like and what is the life of God? And the technical term for the nature of God is this word Trinity, and once we start trying to explain the Trinity we seem doomed from the start to confusion – that is inevitable in a way, because how can our minds take in God?- and if we are not careful we can get into an awful mess. You know there is a lovely story about Trinity College Oxford that always makes me smile: it has a square tower with four statues on the top one at each corner, and one day an American tourist asked the porter who they were, and the porter looked at him pityingly and said “Well, this is Trinity College isn’t it and there they are, three persons and one god”.
When I was at Oxford I was lucky enough to attend a course on the ancient fathers of the Church given by that great Orthodox theologian Bishop Kallistos Ware, and I remember when we looked at what they had to say about the Trinity, and he kept drawing on his flipchart all sorts of diagrams- three torches giving off one light and one heat, three sides making one triangle, and so on, and then he turned to us and said “But I think this is the best diagram for the Trinity” and turned the page over, to reveal- a blank page! The best diagram because whatever we try and work out, we shall never get it completely right. If we could really totally understand God, God just wouldn’t be God. The way I like myself is the way the great Dominican scholar St Thomas Aquinas explains it in the 13th century, in terms of Love. God is above all a god of love, as the Letters of John tell us, especially chapter 4 of his First Letter, to which I shall return. That most exciting of poets Lord Byron wrote when he was nineteen “I cannot exist without some object of love!” and what was true of the restless Byron is true of us all and true on a far greater level of God. God, so to say, cannot exist without some object of love. St Thomas says God the Father has to love, he loves and in his loving needs an object worthy of his love, and that is God the Son, who is the Beloved Son as we hear God the Father repeatedly call him in the Gospels, at his Baptism for instance, and at his Transfiguration, which we have depicted in our apse here. And the Lover and the Beloved love each other with a perfect love which is constant movement between them, passing from one to the other, and that love is what we call the Holy Spirit. Like all true love, it is not just a question of the two lovers being satisfied and edified, not just what the French call an “égoisme à deux”, but somehow there is always a surplus, always more left over to overflow, in children, in friends, in neighbours, in the whole entourage of a couple, and to sustain and encourage them too – just what the Holy Spirit does in the world, the overflowing love of the Father and the Son irrigates the whole world.
But let us get back to that First Letter of John. John tells us that this great outpouring of divine love that is the Holy Spirit flows into each one of us, he says “he has given us of his own Spirit” (I Jn 4 xiii) and because of this the Holy Spirit is living within us- “we abide in him and he in us”. And therefore we are caught up into the divine life, we are swept up into all this constant exchange of love that is the life of the Trinity, the life of God. Any little bit of loving we manage to do in our own lives will be adding to that great stream of loving, just like our funny little rivers in Lewisham run into Deptford Creek and out into the mighty Thames. Our loving will be part of the loving that God does, and not only will that – nonsense I know- “help” God, but it will also, certainly, help us – it will change us, as we in our loving are doing something that is essentially divine and therefore we bit by bit become more godlike ourselves. St John again: “If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us”, (I Jn 4 xii) and he even goes on to say “in this is love perfected with us….because as he is, so are we in this world”. That is our Christian destiny, to allow ourselves to be caught up in the great momentum of loving that overflows from the Godhead, that loving that is the life of God Father Son and Holy Spirit. And in every act of love that we try to show in our own lives, every impulse of love that we receive from the Holy Spirit, is an invitation for us to do something godlike and in so doing become a bit closer to that image and likeness of God in which we are created.
I close with a prayer from that young French Carmelite from Dijon who devoted herself to the Trinity, which she always affectionately called “My Three”, Bl Elisabeth of the Trinity. “O consuming fire, Spirit of Love, come down upon me that there may be brought about in my soul a kind of incarnation of the Word, may I be for him an added humanity in which he renews all his Mystery”. O God of Love, live in us and perfect you love in us! Amen.
Saturday 29 May 2010
Pentecost 2010
Homily for Pentecost 23 May 2010 (Yr c)
Preached at Our Lady Immaculate, Chelmsford
When I spoke in this dear church last it was on your patronal festival and we reflected together on the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady. If I begin by referring to the homily I gave then it is not because I think my words were so memorable that they may be still in your minds but because you may have read it more recently in your parish magazine. I spoke then of there being in the mind of God an ideal version of each one of us- a “form” of each one of us to use Plato’s term- and how of us all only Our Lady has succeeded, by her perfect identification of herself with the Will of God, by the “fiat” that was her constant response to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, in achieving that ideal, being completely and exactly what God had always in mind for her to be.
This ties in very well with our theme for today’s great feast of Pentecost, when we consider the Holy Spirit at work in our individual lives and at work in the Church as a whole. We have already used the word “prompt” and that is a good way of thinking about the Holy Spirit, the great prompter of the Church. Jesus explains to his disciples in today’s Gospel that they are not to be anxious about how they are going to manage after he has returned to heaven (they were great worriers weren’t they!) because “the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you”. The Holy Spirit comes to those first Christians today at Pentecost as we heard in our reading from the Acts, and only now do they really understand the full implications of everything that has been happening since the crucifixion- as John has Jesus say elsewhere in this Gospel (Jn 16:15) “It is from me that he will derive all that he makes plain to you” (Knox tr) and as the priest will say at this Mass in the prayer over the gifts “may the Spirit you promised….reveal to us the full meaning of this sacrifice”. That is one of the titles of the Holy Spirit, isn’t it- the Revealer.
Now the Holy Spirit is like a prompt in that respect- he reminds us of the teachings of Our Lord and helps us understand something of what the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord mean. But he is also a prompt in other ways too. I don’t know if amateur dramatics flourish in this parish, if any of you tread the boards, but if you do you will know that when people act and go on stage, one of the things they most dread is forgetting their lines, and so there is a prompt, someone sitting just offstage in the half light with the script, who can put them right when they dry up or lose- literally- the plot. Well of course that is exactly what the Holy Spirit does in our lives. Archbishop Fulton Sheen says “the great business of the Holy Spirit is to stand behind the scenes to make Christ more real”, to make Christ more real to us and to make us get our lines right. We have it on good authority that “all the world’s a stage” and in recent years there’s a saying that one hears all the time- “life’s not a rehearsal”. Life is not a rehearsal, and we have only one go at it. We are shoved on stage when we pop out of the womb and we have to act our part as best we can from then on, to whatever audience we’ve got here below, whether appreciative or not, throwing tomatoes at us or bouquets. It doesn’t matter in a way, because watching us and willing us on is God himself and his holy Mother, and because whispering to us the next line and the next move is that great prompt, the Holy Spirit. All we have to do is have the confidence to walk out on the stage and look the audience in the eye, and to listen out for those prompts! The prompts may be quite simple, quite straightforward, like “Don’t forget to say your prayers tonight”, “Why not pop into that church on your way to the shops and have a few minutes before the Bl Sacrament?” , they may be nagging away at us, reminding us that we should be beginning to put a few ideas together for our next Confession (“because it’s been a while and we don’t want to get slack do we?”) The prompts may be about how we show that we are people of love, which our Lord said was to be our defining characteristic as his followers (see how they love one another), saying to us “why not smile at that person who’s on their own this morning? “; “ Shall I call in on Mrs so-and-so and see if she needs anything?” You know the sort of thing, those little signs of caring and affectionate interest that can mean so much. And they may be bigger, more urgent, more demanding prompts too- “couldn’t we give more in the Giftaid scheme?”, “ Should I really be involved with this person?”, “Is this the right kind of work for a Catholic?” “ Do I have a vocation and how much longer can I smother it?”
In all these ways what the Holy Spirit is doing is – in another wonderful phrase of Fulton Sheen’s – “wooing the soul”, drawing us ever closer to Our Lord, bringing us into an ever more intimate union with him, in an embrace that is ever tighter. We must let the Holy Spirit do his work, we must allow this ever closer intimacy to come about. Pope Leo XIII of happy memory devoted an encyclical “Divinum Illud Munus” in 1897 to the Holy Spirit and describes this divine intimacy in this way: “that union of affection by which the soul adheres more closely to God, more so than the friend is united to his most loving and beloved friend, and enjoys God in all fullness and sweetness….attributed in a peculiar manner to the Holy Spirit”. (sec 9)
I close with a little story about a builder I used to have. He was Turkish Cypriot and his name was Easy. Now Easy’s private life was a source of as much amazement to me as his bills were, and at the time he was working for me he was living with the third Mrs Easy. One day I met the third Mrs Easy in the street, walking with their little son who was about three years old. I did what was expected of me and went ooh and aah and I said “He’s just like his father!”, whereupon Mrs Easy said rather grimly “I know, but I’m knocking it out of him!” Now that illustrates what I mean about the Holy Spirit and his role in our lives. We need to have our egoism knocked out of us and our likeness to God be made more apparent. One of the great theologians of Alexandria in the 4th century, Didymus the Blind, says “the Holy Spirit brings us back from a state of deformity to our pristine beauty and so fills us with his grace that we can no longer make room for anything that is unworthy of our love”. The Holy Spirit exists to knock us into shape, to offer us all the prompts we need to follow God’s holy will for our lives, to turn us bit by bit into that ideal version of us that God has in his heart for each one of us, our eternal destiny as one of his beloved sons and daughters, with no room in our lives for anything unworthy. It is up to us to react to the Holy Spirit, to respond to his promptings. Can we be like that French Carmelite, near contemporary of Ste Thérèse, Bl Elisabeth of the Trinity, who prayed “I wish to spend my life in listening to you, I wish to make myself wholly teachable, so as to learn everything from you”? We have before us always the supreme example of Our Lady. As God’s plan for her began to dawn upon her, she asked Gabriel “How shall this be?” and received the response “The Holy Spirit will come upon you”. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to come upon us at this Mass, to come and in St Paul’s words “make his home in us”, come and whisper to us ever more clearly the words of the script we need to bring off our greatest role, the Child of God that God wants us to be, and may each of us find at the end of our lives in the applause of the angels and saints that what we given is the performance of a lifetime. Amen.
Preached at Our Lady Immaculate, Chelmsford
When I spoke in this dear church last it was on your patronal festival and we reflected together on the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady. If I begin by referring to the homily I gave then it is not because I think my words were so memorable that they may be still in your minds but because you may have read it more recently in your parish magazine. I spoke then of there being in the mind of God an ideal version of each one of us- a “form” of each one of us to use Plato’s term- and how of us all only Our Lady has succeeded, by her perfect identification of herself with the Will of God, by the “fiat” that was her constant response to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, in achieving that ideal, being completely and exactly what God had always in mind for her to be.
This ties in very well with our theme for today’s great feast of Pentecost, when we consider the Holy Spirit at work in our individual lives and at work in the Church as a whole. We have already used the word “prompt” and that is a good way of thinking about the Holy Spirit, the great prompter of the Church. Jesus explains to his disciples in today’s Gospel that they are not to be anxious about how they are going to manage after he has returned to heaven (they were great worriers weren’t they!) because “the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you”. The Holy Spirit comes to those first Christians today at Pentecost as we heard in our reading from the Acts, and only now do they really understand the full implications of everything that has been happening since the crucifixion- as John has Jesus say elsewhere in this Gospel (Jn 16:15) “It is from me that he will derive all that he makes plain to you” (Knox tr) and as the priest will say at this Mass in the prayer over the gifts “may the Spirit you promised….reveal to us the full meaning of this sacrifice”. That is one of the titles of the Holy Spirit, isn’t it- the Revealer.
Now the Holy Spirit is like a prompt in that respect- he reminds us of the teachings of Our Lord and helps us understand something of what the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord mean. But he is also a prompt in other ways too. I don’t know if amateur dramatics flourish in this parish, if any of you tread the boards, but if you do you will know that when people act and go on stage, one of the things they most dread is forgetting their lines, and so there is a prompt, someone sitting just offstage in the half light with the script, who can put them right when they dry up or lose- literally- the plot. Well of course that is exactly what the Holy Spirit does in our lives. Archbishop Fulton Sheen says “the great business of the Holy Spirit is to stand behind the scenes to make Christ more real”, to make Christ more real to us and to make us get our lines right. We have it on good authority that “all the world’s a stage” and in recent years there’s a saying that one hears all the time- “life’s not a rehearsal”. Life is not a rehearsal, and we have only one go at it. We are shoved on stage when we pop out of the womb and we have to act our part as best we can from then on, to whatever audience we’ve got here below, whether appreciative or not, throwing tomatoes at us or bouquets. It doesn’t matter in a way, because watching us and willing us on is God himself and his holy Mother, and because whispering to us the next line and the next move is that great prompt, the Holy Spirit. All we have to do is have the confidence to walk out on the stage and look the audience in the eye, and to listen out for those prompts! The prompts may be quite simple, quite straightforward, like “Don’t forget to say your prayers tonight”, “Why not pop into that church on your way to the shops and have a few minutes before the Bl Sacrament?” , they may be nagging away at us, reminding us that we should be beginning to put a few ideas together for our next Confession (“because it’s been a while and we don’t want to get slack do we?”) The prompts may be about how we show that we are people of love, which our Lord said was to be our defining characteristic as his followers (see how they love one another), saying to us “why not smile at that person who’s on their own this morning? “; “ Shall I call in on Mrs so-and-so and see if she needs anything?” You know the sort of thing, those little signs of caring and affectionate interest that can mean so much. And they may be bigger, more urgent, more demanding prompts too- “couldn’t we give more in the Giftaid scheme?”, “ Should I really be involved with this person?”, “Is this the right kind of work for a Catholic?” “ Do I have a vocation and how much longer can I smother it?”
In all these ways what the Holy Spirit is doing is – in another wonderful phrase of Fulton Sheen’s – “wooing the soul”, drawing us ever closer to Our Lord, bringing us into an ever more intimate union with him, in an embrace that is ever tighter. We must let the Holy Spirit do his work, we must allow this ever closer intimacy to come about. Pope Leo XIII of happy memory devoted an encyclical “Divinum Illud Munus” in 1897 to the Holy Spirit and describes this divine intimacy in this way: “that union of affection by which the soul adheres more closely to God, more so than the friend is united to his most loving and beloved friend, and enjoys God in all fullness and sweetness….attributed in a peculiar manner to the Holy Spirit”. (sec 9)
I close with a little story about a builder I used to have. He was Turkish Cypriot and his name was Easy. Now Easy’s private life was a source of as much amazement to me as his bills were, and at the time he was working for me he was living with the third Mrs Easy. One day I met the third Mrs Easy in the street, walking with their little son who was about three years old. I did what was expected of me and went ooh and aah and I said “He’s just like his father!”, whereupon Mrs Easy said rather grimly “I know, but I’m knocking it out of him!” Now that illustrates what I mean about the Holy Spirit and his role in our lives. We need to have our egoism knocked out of us and our likeness to God be made more apparent. One of the great theologians of Alexandria in the 4th century, Didymus the Blind, says “the Holy Spirit brings us back from a state of deformity to our pristine beauty and so fills us with his grace that we can no longer make room for anything that is unworthy of our love”. The Holy Spirit exists to knock us into shape, to offer us all the prompts we need to follow God’s holy will for our lives, to turn us bit by bit into that ideal version of us that God has in his heart for each one of us, our eternal destiny as one of his beloved sons and daughters, with no room in our lives for anything unworthy. It is up to us to react to the Holy Spirit, to respond to his promptings. Can we be like that French Carmelite, near contemporary of Ste Thérèse, Bl Elisabeth of the Trinity, who prayed “I wish to spend my life in listening to you, I wish to make myself wholly teachable, so as to learn everything from you”? We have before us always the supreme example of Our Lady. As God’s plan for her began to dawn upon her, she asked Gabriel “How shall this be?” and received the response “The Holy Spirit will come upon you”. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to come upon us at this Mass, to come and in St Paul’s words “make his home in us”, come and whisper to us ever more clearly the words of the script we need to bring off our greatest role, the Child of God that God wants us to be, and may each of us find at the end of our lives in the applause of the angels and saints that what we given is the performance of a lifetime. Amen.
Sunday 9 May 2010
Sixth Sunday of Easter 2010
Homily for Sixth Sunday of Easter 9 May 2010
Today’s Gospel is taken from the long discourse that John recounts Jesus as having with his disciples during the Last Supper, where the emphasis is again and again on love- the disciples are above all to be people who love. In fact last week we heard Jesus say that that must be the defining characteristic of his followers from now on – “by this love you have for one another, everyone will know that you are my disciples” – that is why he says “I give you a new commandment, love one another just as I have loved you”.
Jesus of course when he says this has just given the disciples a vivid example of what he means by love when he washes their feet: love is to be above all about service to others, and our love to be worthy of the name must show itself in practical ways, we must be of use, of help, to those we love. That is how we shall show that we love God- by loving our fellow human beings, doing good to those around us, and trying, insofar as we are able, to live life by the rules, by the teachings of Our Lord as they are mediated to us in every generation by his Church. This is what Jesus means when he says “if anyone loves me he will keep my word” and “those who do not love me do not keep my words”. And then, because Our Lord knows how frail and half-hearted we so often are when it comes to trying to please him and do the right thing, he tells the disciples that they are not going to have to go it alone, because the Holy Spirit will be sent to them at Pentecost to strengthen them, the Holy Spirit who “will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you”.
That is the key to the Christian life isn’t it, the Holy Spirit, given to us in our baptism and living within us to keep us always in close contact with God and to keep prompting us to make that contact day by day in a thousand ways, suggesting to us that we could do this or that, say this or that, helpful thing to the people in our lives, putting the idea into our heads to go into a church and say a prayer, to come to Mass, to start having a few thoughts about our next confession. We see in the creation stories in Genesis the great truth that man is created for intimacy with God, that friendship with God is our destiny, and that this is achieved by God giving us his Spirit. We read in Genesis 2 that when he had created Adam God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living being”. Breath and Spirit are the same word in Hebrew, ruach, and here we see the human race coming alive, coming alive to its true destiny and to all its potential, with the gift of Holy Spirit activating it.
But Jesus says another, quite extraordinary, thing in this gospel reading today. He describes the Christian life, this intimacy with God that we are all called to, in the most moving way when he says that when we live in love, God will come to us in the closest possible way, we shall have the Holy Trinity living in us- “we shall come to him and make our home with him”. This is the vocation of every Christian, to have the Trinity dwelling within us, living in us and acting through us, making us part of the divine life of the Godhead, caught up in the eternal momentum of love that is God’s nature. The Greek word for home that John uses is “mone” the same word in fact that occurs a bit earlier on, when Jesus says “in my Father’s house there are many “monai”, many rooms, many dwelling places. So the word that Jesus uses to describe Heaven is the word he uses to describe our life when it is lived with God in us, a sort of Heaven on earth.
There is a French Carmelite you may know, a near contemporary of her more famous sister Ste Thérèse, Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity. She too died in her early twenties, she too left behind a body of writings that have carried her influence far and wide from her Carmel of Dijon. On her first communion day a nun explained to her that her name Elisabeth meant “House of God” and she loved to think of herself from an early age as just that, God’s little house where he is at home and where he can do as he likes. Just before she died she wrote to her mother “You can believe my doctrine for it is not my own”- she developed her spirituality that the Christian has the Holy Trinity –“my Three” as she affectionately calls them- living in him from Scripture, especially these words of Our Lord in today’s Gospel. Of course how comfortable the Trinity is living in us will depend on us, on how much room we are willing to let God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have (that’s three bedrooms for a start), how open we are prepared to be to the command to love. The more we let God have of our lives, the more he will fill our lives. It’s up to us. The greatest Carmelite of all perhaps is St Teresa of Avila; she reminds us that “Christ does not force our will, he only takes what we will give him, but he does not give himself entirely until he sees that we yield ourselves entirely to him”.
So there is God, the Creator of the Universe, waiting to see what we will spare him, if we will risk a little loving and in so doing let him into a corner of our lives, let him come in and rent a room- or maybe give him a long lease on the whole property. Up to us! Jesus, we love you, we will keep your word; come to us at this Mass, come Father Son and Holy Spirit and make your home in each one of us, live in us and make us your dwellings, your little bits of Heaven, the channels of your love in our broken world. Amen.
Today’s Gospel is taken from the long discourse that John recounts Jesus as having with his disciples during the Last Supper, where the emphasis is again and again on love- the disciples are above all to be people who love. In fact last week we heard Jesus say that that must be the defining characteristic of his followers from now on – “by this love you have for one another, everyone will know that you are my disciples” – that is why he says “I give you a new commandment, love one another just as I have loved you”.
Jesus of course when he says this has just given the disciples a vivid example of what he means by love when he washes their feet: love is to be above all about service to others, and our love to be worthy of the name must show itself in practical ways, we must be of use, of help, to those we love. That is how we shall show that we love God- by loving our fellow human beings, doing good to those around us, and trying, insofar as we are able, to live life by the rules, by the teachings of Our Lord as they are mediated to us in every generation by his Church. This is what Jesus means when he says “if anyone loves me he will keep my word” and “those who do not love me do not keep my words”. And then, because Our Lord knows how frail and half-hearted we so often are when it comes to trying to please him and do the right thing, he tells the disciples that they are not going to have to go it alone, because the Holy Spirit will be sent to them at Pentecost to strengthen them, the Holy Spirit who “will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you”.
That is the key to the Christian life isn’t it, the Holy Spirit, given to us in our baptism and living within us to keep us always in close contact with God and to keep prompting us to make that contact day by day in a thousand ways, suggesting to us that we could do this or that, say this or that, helpful thing to the people in our lives, putting the idea into our heads to go into a church and say a prayer, to come to Mass, to start having a few thoughts about our next confession. We see in the creation stories in Genesis the great truth that man is created for intimacy with God, that friendship with God is our destiny, and that this is achieved by God giving us his Spirit. We read in Genesis 2 that when he had created Adam God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living being”. Breath and Spirit are the same word in Hebrew, ruach, and here we see the human race coming alive, coming alive to its true destiny and to all its potential, with the gift of Holy Spirit activating it.
But Jesus says another, quite extraordinary, thing in this gospel reading today. He describes the Christian life, this intimacy with God that we are all called to, in the most moving way when he says that when we live in love, God will come to us in the closest possible way, we shall have the Holy Trinity living in us- “we shall come to him and make our home with him”. This is the vocation of every Christian, to have the Trinity dwelling within us, living in us and acting through us, making us part of the divine life of the Godhead, caught up in the eternal momentum of love that is God’s nature. The Greek word for home that John uses is “mone” the same word in fact that occurs a bit earlier on, when Jesus says “in my Father’s house there are many “monai”, many rooms, many dwelling places. So the word that Jesus uses to describe Heaven is the word he uses to describe our life when it is lived with God in us, a sort of Heaven on earth.
There is a French Carmelite you may know, a near contemporary of her more famous sister Ste Thérèse, Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity. She too died in her early twenties, she too left behind a body of writings that have carried her influence far and wide from her Carmel of Dijon. On her first communion day a nun explained to her that her name Elisabeth meant “House of God” and she loved to think of herself from an early age as just that, God’s little house where he is at home and where he can do as he likes. Just before she died she wrote to her mother “You can believe my doctrine for it is not my own”- she developed her spirituality that the Christian has the Holy Trinity –“my Three” as she affectionately calls them- living in him from Scripture, especially these words of Our Lord in today’s Gospel. Of course how comfortable the Trinity is living in us will depend on us, on how much room we are willing to let God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have (that’s three bedrooms for a start), how open we are prepared to be to the command to love. The more we let God have of our lives, the more he will fill our lives. It’s up to us. The greatest Carmelite of all perhaps is St Teresa of Avila; she reminds us that “Christ does not force our will, he only takes what we will give him, but he does not give himself entirely until he sees that we yield ourselves entirely to him”.
So there is God, the Creator of the Universe, waiting to see what we will spare him, if we will risk a little loving and in so doing let him into a corner of our lives, let him come in and rent a room- or maybe give him a long lease on the whole property. Up to us! Jesus, we love you, we will keep your word; come to us at this Mass, come Father Son and Holy Spirit and make your home in each one of us, live in us and make us your dwellings, your little bits of Heaven, the channels of your love in our broken world. Amen.
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